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Burke's Gambit

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2016 · 4-8 players · 20min · weight 1.52 · 754 ratings

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ID
206754
Name
Burke's Gambit
Year
2016
Rank
5213
Min players
4
Max players
8
Playing time
20
Min playtime
20
Max playtime
20
Avg weight
1.5217
Num weights
23
Bayes avg
5.76513
Average
6.75428
Users rated
754
Num owned
1130
Wanting
39
Wishing
324
Num comments
212
Fetched at
Wed Apr 29 2026 05:34:55 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Mechanisms (7)
Dice RollingMemoryPlayer EliminationTeam-Based GameTraitor GameVariable Player PowersVoting
Categories (5)
BluffingDeductionNegotiationParty GameScience Fiction
Description (1477 chars)

Speeding through space, Burke's Gambit is a rugged company freighter on an extremely important mission, with its seasoned crew being tasked with finding powerful alien technology. What the crew finds instead is something they never expected: a dangerous parasitic organism has somehow made its way into the ship and inside the body of one of the crew members! Just as the bio-organism contamination alarm goes off, one of the crew members seizes the chaotic moment and sabotages the freighter's engines. The ship, its crew, and the parasitic organism are all on a collision course with planet Earth, where further contamination of the world's population awaits. Which of the crew are dedicated company personnel wanting the alien organism to reach Earth? Which are just crew wanting to identify the infected crew member? Most importantly, which member of the crew is infected?! Join the crew of Burke's Gambit on a wild space adventure with hidden affiliations and a hidden infected player. In Burke's Gambit, players take on specific roles of Captain, Marine, Comms Officer and more as they take turns and roll a die. The possibilities of the die include damaging another player, healing themselves, looking at a crew affiliation card, or even scanning a player's diagnostic card. But if you roll an engine power up, you hasten the ship's arrival to Earth. When Burke's Gambit reaches Earth, a vote must be held to eject someone from the airlock (assuming anyone's left)!

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